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America, and by Gould in the Keport on the Invertebrata of 
Massachusetts.^® Baker, in the Lymnaeidae of North and Mid- 
dle America,^® also copies this reference to Council Bluff, but 
erroneously makes the locality Council Bluffs, Iowa, as already 
noted. 
In 1859 W. G. Binney published a list of land shells (in Hay- 
den’s Keport, p. 128, and copied on p. 414 of his Bibliography) 
which are credited to Council Bluff, N. T. (Nebraska Terri- 
tory) , and this is the only correct reference to this locality known 
to the writer. The list, however, contains several species which 
evidently were collected farther down the Missouri river. 
Say’s early reports contain but one undoubted reference to 
an Iowa locality. In the Journal of the Academy of Sciences 
of Philadelphia (Vol. II, p. 171) he reports Physa gyrina from 
‘‘Bowyer Creek, near Council Bluff”, which is on the Iowa 
side of the Missouri river opposite Council Bluff. The same 
reference is copied in W. G. Binney ’s Land and Fresh-water 
Shells of North America (part II, 1865, p. 77), but in his 
Bibliography (1863, p. 259) he quotes the locality as ‘‘Mis- 
souri”. 
Other early reports of Iowa mollusks may be of interest : 
Haldeman’s Monograph (No. I, 1840, p. 10) reports Paludina 
Integra Say, from the Mississippi river in Iowa, and the report 
is reproduced in Binney ’s Bibliography, p. 66. 
Wheatley’s Catalogue (1845) includes the following species 
credited to Iowa: 
Yitrina pellucida Drap. Iowa Terr.; p. 141. 
Helix porcina Say (i. e., Polygyra Mrsnta). Iowa; p. 142. 
Pupa modesta Say. Iowa; p. 143. 
Lymnaea megasoma Say. Iowa; p. 145. 
Paludina (i. e., Somatogyrus) suhglohosa Say. Iowa; p. 150. 
From 1838 to 1849 Iowa Territory included Minnesota and 
the Dakotas east of the Missouri river, and it is probable that 
at least the first of the above listed species was not collected 
within the present limits of Iowa. 
Prime’s Monograph of American Corbiculadae (1865) con- 
tains the following species from Iowa: 
Sphaerium sulcatum (Lam.) Pr.; p. 34. 
SpUaerium striatinum (Lam.) Pr.; p. 37. 
Sphaerium jayanum Pr.; p. 46. 
27Part II, p. 116 ; part III, p. 12. 
281870, p. 287. 
2»1911, pp. 324, 326. 
